I resemble that comment! Grumble, grumble.

As a professional writer, I could use Office all day. Instead I choose to use something different. At my part-time teaching job, I have to use Office occasionally and hate it.

I've used it many times. The problem is you have to first FIND where they have hidden things that you used to know exactly where it was. That usually takes 10-20 EXTRA clicks.

Have it at work and HATE it (but I've always hated Word and PowerPoint, Excel is fine). I use TexShop (Latex frontend), iWork, and Storymill for my serious writing (I'm an author and teacher).

No, Apple's Pages "out of your face" interface makes sense. Word's ribbon does not.

I know plenty of people who have switched to OOo at home, because it is more like the "old" Office they are used to.

And it takes you 5 minutes to find where a stupid MS programmer has moved a menu item that you know is under "Edit" and has been for many a year. My time is money. I don't want to waste it because some dumb programmer thought they should move things around.

I agree. If it is a mission critical production machine. Then once it works don't bother upgrading until there is a really, really good reason to do so. If it is just your home machine that you do amateur recording with, then them's the breaks.

A pretty lady as a wallpaper will convince them just fine.

You must not be a junior high student. Almost all of my students use Spotify here in Sweden.

I agree. I absolutely HATE Outlook. It's the most unintuitive program I've ever used. Unfortunately last year I substituted at a school that ran virtualized Windows from Sun Rays. I wasn't allowed to install Thunderbird. I tried the portable version, but it was blocked by the Nazi-like proxy. Ugh, which did I hate more--teaching junior high kids there or using Outlook? Tough call.

Good for you. Personally, I'd rather have an eInk device. Like iLiliad or Kindle (not available here in Europe).

I've been hunting for a latex-to-mobi (or other e-book formats) util out there, but haven't found anything. I have tons of code that I would love to make ebooks for Stanza and my Touch.

Mac Pros are workstation not gaming machine. Go figure.

I don't think I've every searched for "freeware". It never occurred to me that someone would do that instead of "open source."